Phrases which I don’t understand (and which give me the rage)

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‘She was murdered in broad daylight’.
What is ‘broad daylight’? Is it worse than being killed in the middle of the night?

’He was found lying in a pool of his own blood’. Well, he’s not likely to have been found in a pool of someone else’s blood, is he?

Perhaps my perimenopausal diminishing hormones are taking over but phrases like this give me the rage. Any other examples?

When someone asks ‘what did you say your name was?’ erm I didn’t.

Spill the tea/beans.
I "brought " if from the shop
Butter wouldn't melt referring to a cute kid.
The word LIL instead of little
Chester draws instead of drawers.
Referring to every single baby as a heartbreaker.
Using the word bare to replace the word lots.

Its time to have a conversation about the birds and the bees.
Uhhhh birds and bees dont reproduce with eachother.

Its cringe.
But it means, you either ride along or you die.
Meaning that you stick with your gang/crew or you die basically.

My son read a message out that said "there are bare people at the yard"

So naked people in the garden??? 😫
He said no, its lots of people at the house party. 🙄

Apologies looks like someone are already explained the fonzy reference. Doh.

This one annoys me too. I don't know why, but it really irritates me.

This is true. The saying comes from the Old Testament where the people would basically put their sins on to a goat (in the absence of having a temple sacrifice) and then send it out into the wilderness as a symbol that their sins were gone/dealt with. The goat became symbolic of their sin and provided a way to ‘escape’ God’s wrath. So yes, true!

We would call an older man a "mannie" and a woman a "wifie".
It just annoys me when it's applied to little children

Possibly he did, but then people started using thing instead of think and that is now the more common usage. Language evolves over time.

Sourced - do you mean bought?
Carefully curated - I think you mean chosen
Pan fried - what else will you fry it in? A welly?
Can I get - no, you cannot. I’ll get it for you
Making memories - you mean you’re doing something
Happy heavenly birthday mum (on Facebook) - they’re hardly likely to be on Facebook now are they?
Little man - boy?

So many for me. I don’t say anything to the person saying it but I do frown inwardly.

Hmm, your complaint seems to be: people complaining about all the blandness creeping in is symptomatic of all the blandness creeping in.

Most of the complaints on this thread are about the glib, over-used cliches that have become even more hackneyed (and often misused) due to social media. And the indeed, the corporate groupthink you mentioned. I can't see anyone complaining about creativity or individuality.

Sorry, that was in reply to LimpRat 😄

Only among the semi-literate (or Judas Priest fans)…

‘Pan fried’ is to distinguish from ‘deep fried’.

Yeah the "broad daylight" thing is weird- its like its added for shock value, as if being murdered when the sun is out is somehow worse or more painful than being murdered after sunset.

I also find it odd when a violent killer is revealed and the neighbours always say "Its so shocking, he was a quiet chap and always kept himself to himself" as if thats somehow strange. Of course he did! if you heard constant screaming and a chain saw roaring from next door at 4am I suspect that might be your first clue.

"Bob's your uncle" - lol what? why is your uncle being called Bob mean everything will work out just fine?

"the dog's bollocks"- er, nope. Thats gross and I have never ever thought wow- this thing really is as great as a dog's testicles 🤮

When restaurants describe their chips as ‘hand cut’. As far as I’m aware, the taste is the same whether they’re cut by a hand or by a machine. I realise they’re probably trying to infer the food is made lovingly but still, I honestly don’t care how my potatoes are sliced.

If you have persuaded yourself that any gentleman or lady who fails to speak and write in the precise manner favoured in the closing decade of the nineteenth century must, by that omission alone, be accounted scarcely literate, then I venture to warn you that you are destined to traverse the course of your life in a state of unremitting and most grievous disappointment.

Oh so when people talk of "man and wife" would that have originally been more equal language, more like "man and woman" rather than "man plus the appendage who is now defined by being married to him"?

Re cheap at half the price, it bothered me for ages but I've mentally parked it as "Being sold half price today, and therefore it's cheap". A bit like putting a 50% off sticker on something.

'It's so aesthetic'.

No.

It has an aesthetic. A thing cannot be aesthetic.

Because doing a 360 is ending up at the same place - she probs means a 180. Fool.

Not the PP, but for a long time I thought it was "thing". Reasoning - you believe this "thing" will happen, but you're wrong and some "thing" different will happen, hence, "You've got another thing coming."

'A phrase I've seen on forums that I've never understood is "shit eating grin". I think it means when someone is smug about something, or happy that something bad happened to someone? It's a horrible image though!'

I think it means a desperate or people pleasing type of grin. Like you would eat shit if you were told to.

My big brother was friends with a guy who really loved himself and thought he was the sexiest man in town. My father used to say "He thinks hes the fat dogs boll%@ks"

I used to want to throw uo

Over the rainbow and fly high with the angels.
Have a beer up there for us grandpa